Sweet walk Broadwater, New South Wales, Australia
By azucar on 04-Jul-06. Waypoint GCWZH1

Catching up with MattyRx recently, I mentioned that I've been attempting to walk all of Broadwater NPs trails, which really feels impossible. He mentioned this archived cache along a trail I was yet to do. I couldn't just walk past it. I had to have a sticky beak. Hahaha.

Of course I found about a much as Mr Rx did. I couldn't figure out where the stump would have been before disintegrating in a fire so didn't know where to dig. Cool old Banksia near GZ though. I'm sure that if anything did survive the fire way back when, then the trees here will eventually bring it to the surface...like in about 30 years.

I placed a glass bottle found nearby upside down in the ground at where i thought GZ might have been. I'm guessing it will roll away from there in the next few months with weather and animal activity though.

I've been searching for some of the local archived caches, and saw that there was slim possibility that this cache may be still in place - even though it's just ticked over 10 years since the last find. Looks like there may have been a fire though here, no sign of the hint. Found some broken glass, but pretty sure it was an old drink bottle, not a cache. Was worth a try!

Retiring this cache....

Signed log 4:30 pm after sighting many species of birds and swamp wallabys on the track to cache, Great location TFTC-azucar

Our third cache for the day.

Took frog, left party popper and foot.

SL/TFTC!

-Team-Riot!

Banksia---Banksia ---Banksia ---Cache --- Banksia ---Banksia --- Banksia. TNLN TFTC

i enjoyed this one. It was a nice walk through the park. Nice easy find oncve at GZ
Took bouncy ball
left pink frog
SL
TFTC

Pleaseant evening walk to find this one. Easy find once at GZ.

Luckily we decided on the correct trail and after a short walk with kids in tow, we were successful.

Beautiful area, we saw a dozen wallabies and a big blue tounge lizard. Not much room to park the car but worth the walk for sure. Took Magnet, left Sylvester toy!
Just a little off the track, nothing the gps wont sort out!

[This entry was edited by travvy2000 on Sunday, August 24, 2008 at 2:48:53 AM.]

A sweet walk with great company. This cache was actually really fun, much more so than I had anticipated!

Cheers

found with hoojar.
A fun cache for me!


Cheers.

First time we have walked this delightful trail.
TFTC Took dice left chest magnet.

Found at 1125hrs. Easy walk with the geokids.
Left pink yoyo took diabetes geocoin.

The temptation to do some geocaching while we were down camping at Evans Head over the Easter Long Weekend was too much... So off we went to hunt down the local caches.

Pretty amazing that we had been camping at Evans Head for the last 5 years and had never even once come close to finding this spot before. Even spotted a couple hopping furries on the way to this cache.

The cache was a nice easy find and still in very good condition.

Dropped off a geocoin "WDD 2007 Commemorative Geocoin"

Thanks for the hunt
Ksix
2008-03-22
13:53

Forgot to "drop" the WDD2007 Comemorative Geocoin of in my previous log.

Cheers,
Ksix

A nice easy find, and a gentle way to walk of some of the x-mas feasting. TFTC TNLN

A great walk indeed! very hot so fairly fast experience. TFTC

Interesting walk that we'd never have made except to find a cache. Beautiful day to be out. Thanks again azucar.

Beautiful spot - the Xantheria Australis are beautiful
T: Lens Cleaner
L: Lizard
TFTH

Enjoyed the walk along the track as per the description, with the birds in full voice this morning. Cache was an easy find and I TNLN. Thaks to azucaer for a good cache.

Nice easy find s/l/t/n/l/n.thanks for the cache Azucar
Regards Angel Dust

We bush bashed it as like Xena Commander we missed the fire trail. Fortunately we avoided wasps and found the cache OK, took the trail back which was much easier
Took whistle, left porcupine.
Thanks for the cache
Cheers

Easy walk and a easy find. Took torch and left a whistle.
Thanks.

Awesome hide, but I think Skippy thought we were lost!!! (fmsam and I were supervised by a (?swamp) wallaby..)

nice easy find eriond found this one our 9th one for the day

Time to head home and thus a few caches along the way. Found it easily, but not sure why here! Still I enjoyed the walk and took in a few other local caches. TNLN Thanks

This was our first attempt and the kids just loved the treasure hunt. Didn't take much to find it at all. Thanks
Took a lucky coin and left a little Santa.

XC was driving back to Brisbane airport to fly home after visiting a friend in MacLean... Nice place.. But this place is too hot for this old salt...
I didn't have the picture clue so drove straight past and stopped at a couple of other signs... which seemed close to GZ..
Started to bush bash on a straight line to cache.. Aaarrgghh!!!! boggy ground and the trees got more dense.. and bushes were "grabbing" hold of me..
Hmmm this is not the way!! Yes.. I am a bit slow on the up take..!
On way back I must have disturbed a wasp cause he stung me on the arm..!!!!!! Yeeeeooowww!!!!!!! that smarts.. Are the wasps over in this foreign land carrying disease! Lol.
Back to car!! Whew... shall I give up..
drove back.. Hmm saw sign and fire break track..
Ah hah.. this is much better... walked in and got to GZ ok.. Nice hide.. It was so hot I was grateful to find a bandana in the cache.. so donned it immediately to soak up some kiwi sweat... and replaced it with Kiwi Key ring from cache bag.
Signed the log and replaced...
TFTC #322

We had a little trouble finding the entrance from the road, although after consulting the map we found that we'd somehow already driven past it without noticing.

The walk in was really nice... the kids still had their shoes off from when they were down on the beach, but the track was quite ok for this.

Upon getting to GZ we found the cache immediately and made a couple of swaps before returning it & returning to the car. TFTC... a lovely area.

The walk in was very refreshing. Track is lined with Banksias - very impressive. TNLN. This cache is not likely to be muggled!

1715. An easy find after a short walk in from the North side of the park. Not sure is we were allowed to drive in to there but the track was on the map and no signs to not.
TNL a big dice.
T4TC the Chambos.

Went to to wrong stump first, took flash light left kindness coin. TFTC From USA but living in China here on holiday

a short walk in and a quick find. if i had more time and energy i would have followed the track to see what as there.

Our third cache of the day. A nice walk up the fire trail amidst the croacking of thousands of frogs after recent heavy rain.

Found after a short search. Left Bandana, took yoyo.

Tftc

Found as Austronin

S 29° 01.741 E 153° 26.778
Picked up the bug Bluegillfisherman #484832 from Sweetwater being my second Geocache trip after getting the "bug" for finding geocache's I looked into Travelbugs and noticed one nearby to my home so I set off with family to find the bug with great sucess! I am proud to have taken this Bug from its hiding spot to a new Geocache yet to be decided. This bug will Be placed in a new location within 1 week. From the site we also left a note to all and took a rubber ball and left in the cache a Photographers Lens Cleaner and a "Winner" Badge.

From the Gang Good hunting this one is well hidden!

pleasant walk after we found the trail, took keyring compass, left torch.
Left bluegillfisherman TB

Yep, this was a sweet walk
So many banksia trees! Watch out for those big bad banksia men [:o]
Took earplugs and left a big dice. Grabbed the Parading pets travel bug

Little confused by this one, log book aready shows a FTF last month and cache contains a TB that has not been logged in yet.
Will hang on to the TB until it has bee logged in
Tnx
keener

Published

Excellent cache, although we did go a little wrong on the way there and spent ages searching in the wrong area, with lots of roos for company!